Work up this morning to this morning at 7am duckling was alive, was alive at 1.30pm. Just got home at 4pm and she died. How could this be prevented? I'm watching incubator for the local high school but have no experience. Another egg has a crack. Do I spray them with water? Use tweezers to help...
This is this morning. Kids found her sitting in water bowl. I took her out and put a ceramic heater on so she wouldn't get a chill. Its quite warm here though low 20's°C
Female gouldian finch is probably 14 months old. We suspected mites yesterday and sprayed her. She was looking scabby around the face and acting a bit strange. This afternoon I saw her on the floor in the avairy rocking in the corner. I picked her up (she's never let me that close before) she...
I couldnt see any mites on the bodies. They are just hatching naturally in the avairy. They eat chick starter crumble and a poultry layer mash. Possibly they eat the seed dropped by the finches. They are looking good now🤞
6 days ago we awoke to 4 new japanese quail hatched to our avairy. 2 days later I entered avairy and 1 of the chick was crying and squirming with an arched back. It passed away soon after. Another was crying with its eyes closed. I tried to feed it water and food with a syringe but it died the...
We have a randy male quail and he is just harassing my girls. We originally had 1 male and 4 girls. We woke up to some baby chicks in August and they lived in the avairy for a week but we had to removed and put under a heat lamp when mummy got sick of looking after them. Now we reintroduced...